Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2026

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/30/2026

    Nope, I wasn’t done, because the yellow-green neon came in the mail. So this is the previous … This is the progress … And this is the goal. I am done, really, now that I have that neon yellow green. It’s a big tube so my mica lampshade reflected on a blue-green wall needs are…

  • Diverging diamonds

    The highway interchange by the mall has been distorted into a diverging diamond interchange. I was not expecting this at all. Like so many, I screamed my way through the journey when the lane I was in, the right lane, pictured in red below, aimed me toward the other side of the overpass bridge into…

  • The continuing saga of the underwear box

    I took a hard look at the man on the underwear box, especially his wonky navel, and then I noticed another flaw. Look right above the word “Calvin” on the elastic waistband on the right. “Gary,” I said, “Come here. It looks like the model has psoriasis or eczema or whatever you have.” So evidently…

  • Noisy tornado season 2026

    Oh, good God, just this morning I heard three phone alerts, eight tornado alerts over the TeddyJ PA warning system, and six separate outdoor sirens. I imagine this day of unrelenting tornado alerts is to make up for the lack of alarms when the 2025 tornado hit Saint Louis City. It began at work when…

  • TWIL: they make heated eyelash curlers nowadays

    For years I deliberately didn’t give a thought to my appearance, and now that I’m aging I’m straightening my teeth and playing with fake eyelashes and losing weight. Because, as I say, I can’t be plain and then be old on top of it. That exceeds my acceptable level of hideousness. (Youthful acceptable level of…

  • Fake

    It’s been four years of wigs now, and really, the wigs are working out for me. Granted, it gets a bit dull during the week, same hair every day no matter the weather, but on the weekends I make a point of exercising the wigs that have been sitting idle. The neighbors see me gardening…

  • Gary competes with the underwear box man

    You may recall Gary gave me this box to appreciate earlier this week. Yesterday he came by and complained I had set the box down and now I could not admire the box fully unless I was standing up. Today he pointed out the man’s navel. “THAT MODEL HAS A BAD NAVEL. MY NAVEL IS…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/23/2026

    So this is the previous … This is the progress … This is where it started: And this is the goal. I am done. Still couldn’t capture the light. I am no Thomas Kinkade. You know, maybe I meed to just buy a tube of neon yellow green.

  • Gary makes nice

    Tiny steps are being taken in the domestic peace talks. For example, I watched his tiresome movie last night. In response, this morning he gave me this empty underwear box.

  • Review: Crime 101

    Sometimes Gary wants to watch a movie so much that he becomes unreasonably attached to it and feels personally insulted if you do not embrace it as well. The most recent example is a heist/chase/relationship movie called Crime 101. It is so long we had to watch it in stages. There’s an hour left and…